Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
men self approval-of-others
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
flower thinking care
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
money mines tainted
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
new-year dozen littles
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
garden novelty natural
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
ignorance men knowledge-and-ignorance
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
war lying men
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
war looks instigators
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
war men animal
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
father science years
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.
teacher educational learning
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
suicide grief heart
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
suicide suicidal people
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
leadership education trying
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.